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Title: Analyzing Changes in Sex Education Funding and Outcomes in Kansas

Step 01. Read this article: https://www.governing.com/topics/education/gov-sex-education-funding-states.html
Step 02. Draft a response to the question(s) below:
In the first few paragraphs, the article discusses data from Kansas.  What is the reason they are giving you to explain why the numbers have changed? 
Does the article provide evidence to demonstrate that their explanation WHY we have seen a change in outcomes?
What other data/information would you like to see in order to more completely understand the situation?

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FBI UCR Data Analysis: Trends in Crime Rates and Arrests over the Past 20 Years

From where does the FBI get the data that is presented in the UCR? Which eight crimes are included in the “Offenses Known to Law Enforcement” data? What is the difference between the “Offenses Known to Law Enforcement” data and the “Persons Arrested” data?
For the following questions, you will use the UCR data website (as shown in the video from Module 02).
2. What was the national violent crime rate (per 100,000 population) in 1999, 2008, and 2018? Using this data, discuss how the violent crime rate has changed over the past 20 years.
3. In 2016, which region of the U.S. (Northeast, South, Midwest, West) had the highest property crime rate per 100,000 population and which had the lowest? In 2010, which region has the highest rate of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter and which has the lowest? 
4. In 2018, how many juveniles (under 18) were arrested for robbery in Idaho? What percentage of all arrests for robbery in Idaho were committed by juveniles (to calculate a percentage, divide the number of juvenile robbery arrests by the total number of robbery arrests and then multiply by 100)? Which state (excluding Washington, D.C.) had the fewest number of total arrests for burglary?
5. Nationally, there was only one crime type where there were more arrests of females compared to males in 2018. Name this crime, as well as the number of female and male arrests for the crime.
Video from module 2- https://boisestate.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c7e06e10-034c-48e4-8374-ac14011b71b9